On the morning of November 1st we were moving around in the area of Pagkrati in order to act in the framework of the campaign for international solidarity the organization had decided together with comrade and brother P.Argirou. Because, however, of the police-like curiosity of an employee of a courier company, certain personal errors and our being surrounded by the pigs of the DIAS group and other police forces that isolated the area, there was little choice and we were led to the building of GADA (police headquarters building) to the floor of the anti-terrorist police.

Despite the fact that my recognition was immediate, since one of the directors of some department amidst kicks and punches the moment when I was sitting in a stationary position shouted “it’s Makis”, I denied to give my information for the first few hours, with the hope of gaining precious time in order to help my comrades. We refused to have our fingerprints taken, photographs, dna and generally we refused to sign anything or to help in the least these pigs, holding the obvious attitude that every revolutionary should have.

The interrogation began with the usual offensive comments. That were decreased temporarily when they noticed a tattoo that I have with the word “conspiracy”, which made them change their attitude. Knowing that they would try to take photographs to publicize it I sat with my head bent down in order to avoid it. Then pretending that they would transport me to the detention room, they took me out to the corridor of the 12th floor where, pulling my head, they told me to watch where I’m going. At that time I was photographed by the camera that was in the corridor. It is the photograph that was published after our arrest. So began an interrogation that lasted roughly 3 days which fluctuated depending on what was happening outside. Annoyed by the constant repetition of my answer “I have nothing to declare” they began provoking me again with offenses and provocations about individuals that I knew, or not. The interrogations took place in two rooms, and in one of the two, where I had communication with my lawyer and my mother, an officer of the anti-terrorist informed me the last day that they were both rooms with microphones and cameras.

As for my DNA, after the arrest, my socks were immediately confiscated for the corresponding sample, while even during my transport, while they had my head pressed down, somebody with surgical gloves forcefully pulled hair from my head, again for a DNA sample. Their stress and anxiety increased, seeing our negative attitude to their questions, while at the same time outside the incendiary parcels continued to be delivered to the recipients, according to the plan of the organization. The threats increased, talking of killing me on Imitos mountain and they would throw me from the window in the case that there was a problem with some plane. Obviously they meant the plane that was landed in Italy because of the parcel for Berlusconi.

An Interview with Athens Anti-Authoritarian Movement Comrades

This August I interviewed three comrades from the Athens section of the Anti-Authoritarian Movement of Greece (Alpha Kappa/AK in the Greek acronym). The folks I interviewed live in Exarhia, a neighborhood with a massive anarchist population in central Athens where the December 2008 Greek Uprising began, around which 200 police maintain a permanent security perimeter. AK, the largest anarchist organization in the country, is based around only three points of unity. These minimum core values are:

The antiauthoritarian character of its scope and frame.

The direct democracy in the way of decision-making.

The denial of occupation of any form of power.

Vaggelis Nanos is in his early thirties. He helped found Nosotros, the first and largest social center in Exarhia. He also works on Babylonia, AK’s monthly publication which is distributed in kiosks across the country. Sofia is also in her early thirties, and is a member of the AK working group for the creation of an anti-authoritarian economy. Epaminontas “Nontas” Skiftoulis joined the movement at its beginning,around the 1970s struggle against the Military Junta. He is quite influential for his ideas and articulateness. Police also accused him of being a member of an early anarchist guerrilla group.

“Men (sic) make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating something that has never yet existed, precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names, battle cries and costumes in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honored disguise and this borrowed language.” – Ironically yours, Karl Marx

Proudhon was the first to call himself an anarchist, advocating a mix of socialism and capitalism called “mutualism.” Bakunin’s collectivist anarchism critiqued mutualism. Kropotkin’s anarchist communism critiqued collectivist anarchism. Are we really to believe that this is the apex of anarchist thought? Do we really want to adhere dogmatically to theories concocted over a century prior to neo-liberal globalization? Do we ignore everything that has happened since then and refuse to learn from it? If we are truly seeking anarchy, of course the answer is no.

We want an anarchy that is relevant in combating the existing economic and social order. We recognize that neo-liberal globalization has vastly changed economic and social relations from the time of the founders of what came to be known as social anarchism and we choose to adapt our resistance and our tactics as a result. This is not to say that proponents of social anarchism or market anarchism aren’t “real” anarchists (as those sectarian factions and others tend to say about anarchists who don’t bear their particular anarcho-prefix) but that those theories and ideologies and dogmas are not anarchistic and do not result in anarchy. Because of this, we, all anarchists, autonomists, and other anti-authoritarians, should continue to critique anarchist theory and practice to wrest anarchy from the hands of socialists or capitalists seeking to co-opt anarchist rhetoric and aesthetics to wage counter revolution and seize control.

We pay respect to anarchists of the past of all stripes and creeds, and seek to learn from their discoveries, successes, and failures. We also pay respect to past and present day stateless egalitarian hunter gatherer societies and look to them for inspiration as well, knowing that white men from the mid 19th century didn’t have all the answers.

Looking to the past, present, and future we strike what we don’t like or what does work and we keep the good stuff and create something that works for us in the here and now. Those who speak of revolution as some lofty dream, or future event to be hoped for, a single moment in the future, already wage counter revolution.

For well over a century, some anarchists have aligned themselves with socialists of various shades, even fighting on the same side for different periods of time in several failed revolutions. We do not wish to rewrite history or to downplay this alliance, but to learn from it, challenge it, and question its role in the fight for anarchy today while advocating for its immediate and total annulment.

We can define socialism loosely as an economic system in which wealth and property are held either in common or by the state and/or party, in which the means of production and control of distribution are held by the state and/or party, workers, or the whole of society. Socialism can range from leninist totalitarianism to social democracy, to libertarian socialism and social anarchism.

Even under these broad strokes, anarchy escapes. Anarchy is not production and consumption, federations and councils, meetings, and voting and it certainly isn’t the state. Such institutions are authoritarian. Anarchy is autonomous individuals associating with others voluntarily to fulfill their needs and desires. This is probably best exemplified among hunter/gatherer bands. Socialism, like capitalism is an economic system, and anarchy seeks to abolish economics altogether.

So do we—a total break with domination and hierarchy in all their forms, involving an armed uprising if need be. Until that’s possible, we’ll settle for recurring clashes in which to develop our skills, find comrades, and emphasize the gulf between ourselves and our oppressors.

But how do we bring about these confrontations? How do we ensure that they strengthen us more than our enemies? What pitfalls await us on this road? And what else do we have to do to make our efforts effective?

“I want to live among people who are conscious that we live in a war. A war against life, against the spirit. I want to live among people who don’t look down at their feet, or won’t look you in the eyes when you speak of struggle or insurrection, because In their heart they know they have surrendered, and because—maybe, just maybe—they never really hated the system. Among people who have not been bought, who did not take the pills they were offered, because they preferred to struggle with their feeling of pathologized anxiety than to live in the dead zone. People who don’t pretend to be struggling when it is obvious that what they are doing is turning a battlefield into a garden. I want to be in a place where the war is admissible.”

—anonymous Spanish poet

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[Noticias de la Guerra Social] In the early hours of Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at about 2am an anonymous shadow approached and left an incendiary device in the doorway of the Circle of retired prison officers located at José Toribio … Continue reading →

translation received anonymously: Translator’s note: This sabotage took place during the ongoing movement against the “loi Travail” (the work act). The university of Tolbiac is on the frontline of this struggle in Paris. This rampage was commented in the bourgeois … Continue reading →

(WOS note: Here are links to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd communiques of the new phase of ITS.) from Maldición Eco-extremista, translated by “Chahta-Ima”: “ITS is in Argentina” That was part of the message that we left along with an … Continue reading →

from Maldición Eco-extremista: Merely being an eco-extremist propagandist, I am forced to pay attention to reactions of anarchist and leftist readers to the actions of ITS and other eco-extremist groups. The first reaction I encounter is usually one of disgust. … Continue reading →

(WOS Note: Here are the first and second communiques of the new phase of Individualists Tending toward the Wild (ITS), both in Mexico. This translation by “Chahta-Ima” with some edits.) From maldicionecoextremista: We are curare arrows of the ancients against … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, translated wos: During the night between the 19th and 20th of November we placed an incendiary device on a lateral conductor on the tracks of the Turín-Milán line. Onward with the sabotage of the tentacles of the system! … Continue reading →

From Contrainfo, translation WOS: Communique received February 11, 2016 Below we leave some words from anarchist compañera Mónica Caballero in relation to the logic and functioning of the respect unit (m-R) in multiple prisons in the Spanish State. With the … Continue reading →

Text from Contrainfo, translation WOS; also see this report from the press: Santiago, Chile, February 11, 2016 On February 11, we headed for the intersection of Pedro Lagos and Arturo Prat, where the Chilean gendarmerie have their Center for Social … Continue reading →

we receive and publish an extract from an article about the attack, followed by a translation of the communique claiming the attack: In the fourth anti-GMO terrorist event in Latin America this year, the Mexico-based organization Alianza Pro Transgenicos (Alliance … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, transl. waronsociety: The reasons to act, motivations, and urgencies remain. Also in many the excuses to not do it remain. We will always consciously choose the first option. Saturday, July 4, minutes before the “copa américa” began, which … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: Chikomoztoc, July 3, 2015. “But how can we pretend that one dies in time who has never lived in time? It would be better if they had not been born. This is what Nature desires for … Continue reading →

from refractario, transl. waronsociety: Claudio Lavazza’s contribution to the “Days of Resistance and Solidarity” held March 26-28 in Athens organized by the Assembly of Solidarity with Political Prisoners and Imprisoned and Accused Fighters. The compañero remains imprisoned in the dungeons … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: Chikomoztok, July 8, 2015 The company ICA (Civil and Associated Engineers) is the giant of infrastructure in Mexico. The construction of freeways, urban complexes, hydroelectric plants, airports, refineries, metro stations and more, are the areas that … Continue reading →

translation we receive and publish (original is at contrainfo [pdf]): Pachuca, Hidalgo, November 13 2014. With this statement, some groupuscules of “Wild Reaction” (RS), will respond to the text “Some ideas about the present and the future” from “Ediciones Isumatag” … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: 1st Message: Declaration of Permanent War Everyone get out! “Bakunin said that revolutions are three quarters fantasy and a quarter reality. The important thing is realizing where the fantasy that leads to the explosion of generalized … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: Don’t vote them in, kick them out! “As writers of an essay of political philosophy, the Invisible Committee affects a strong contempt for speculation and a marked penchant for practice. And this is good, above … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: Several months ago, the communication media falsely attributed to us a series of attacks on various targets in different parts of the Mexican republic, for which reason we want to present the following: 1. The … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, transl waronsociety: At almost two months into the liquid hunger strike of compañerxs Juan Flores, Nataly Casanova, and Guillermo Durán, today [June 5th] one of the most important demands was achieved: compañero Enrique Gúzman was moved from prison … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: In the morning of April 14 of this year, we left a book-bomb in the facilities of the University of Mexico Valley (UVM), on its Coacalco campus in Mexico State. The explosive was addressed to … Continue reading →

from contrainfo, translated by waronsociety: The morning of May 14 of this year, we prepared a fire extinguisher full of dynamite, black powder and phosphorous powder with a homemade slow-fuse detonator. We abandonded it on the outskirts of the Cuautitlán campus … Continue reading →

But it’s not anymore. Three years to the day of the first post to This Is Our Job, I’ve decided to end this particular anarchist project in order to devote myself to other anarchist projects. Primarily, I want more time … Continue reading →

As we’ve already stated, the police will be attacked, whether with bullets, fire, or explosives. We call the things we do by their names, and we want our comrades to do the same. We’re not going to say we’re carrying … Continue reading →

On Tuesday, October 2, the sentences were announced in the second trial of the Fire Cells Conspiracy Revolutionary Organization. The trial began in December 2011 and dealt with three bombings carried out by the Fire Cells Conspiracy in 2009: at … Continue reading →

Operation Ardire prisoner Giulia Marziale has just released two fascinating communiqués about the ludicrousness of the charges against her and about the hypocrisy of people who sympathize with political dissidents elsewhere while condemning those in their own backyard.

From Liberación Total (September 14, 2012): CLAIM FOR REVOLUTIONARY CRIMINAL ATTACK ON LA FLORIDA PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE We attacked the Southern Prosecutor’s Office because it symbolizes law enforcement. From there, people are sent to prison. People are sentenced for crimes and … Continue reading →

Wednesday, September 5 The four Fire Cells Conspiracy members refused to attend this trial session, thereby showing their opposition to the vindictive transfers imposed on them during the summer, as they were brought back to Korydallos Prison in Athens just … Continue reading →

In this most recent letter from Stefano Gabriele Fosco, who ran the Culmine blog before he was arrested in the context of Operation Ardire, he fires back at those who have been criticizing anarchist prisoners for using elements of the … Continue reading →

New video from the fierce riot that “exploded” in Athens on December 6, 2016, commemorating the 8th year since 15 years old Alexis Grigoropoulos murder in cold blood by a policeman in the Exarcheia neighborhood of Athens, on December 6, … Continue reading →

[update]Aachen: the comrade is spoken free Posted on 2016/12/08 On the 8th of December the court acquitted the comrade from Amsterdam accused of a bank robbery of 2013 in Aachen. Over 60 people were present in court, to show their … Continue reading →

At the ‘St.Johann’ station, about a dozen windows of the customs building will have to be replaced (panes broken). The remaining part will need to be cleaned due to inscriptions “Stop deportation! Smash the State!” The windows of the distributor … Continue reading →

RESIST THE NANO WORLD Meeting and talk with comrades Silvia Guerini and Costantino Ragusa of the radical Eco paper ‘L’urlo della Terra’. Analysis and critique concerning nanotechnologies, biotechnologies and how the convergence of sciences, between nocivities and the dominion of … Continue reading →

From the local media we learn that on 28th November an unexploded homemade device was found near a Poste Italiane agency in the Turin neighbourhood of Vallette; a thermos filled with gunpowder and linked to a timer had been placed … Continue reading →

At 6am on 29th November the digos of Turin notify 9 eviction notices and carry out four arrests. The charges relate to the resistance staged during an anti-eviction picket on 2nd May. The accusations are: aggravated bodily harm in collusion … Continue reading →

Update on the trial against me concerning article 414 of the penal code Predictably they sentenced me to 14 months due to the written piece that I put out following the dissociation of a few ambiguous persons. The charge is … Continue reading →

PDF INTRODUCTORY NOTE The “publication of tear down bastille” is in the frames of the functioning of the Solidarity fund for imprisoned and prosecuted fighters and is distributed in- side, as well as outside the walls. The main activity of … Continue reading →

The court of Aachen has set the dates for the start of the trial against the two comrades from Barcelona accused of expropriating a branch of Pax-Bank in Aachen in November of 2014. The court case will start on the … Continue reading →

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On November 21st, after a nine-month postponement, my trial commences at the court of appeal. It’s been two years since the completion of my trial at the court of first instance, when I was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the charges of common complicity to homicide and robbery in connection with the events on […]

– 08/12/2016 According to RadioAzione and the Anarchist Black Cross in Italy, comrade Valentina Speziale had their request for house arrest rejected. Solidarity with the detained comrades. – 05/12/2016 In his letter the anarchist comrade Daniele Cortelli informs us about the transfer of another comrade, Danilo Cremonese, to Ferrara prison, on November 23th. […]

“CLASS WAR hit watermain outside Foxtons Islington… and flood Boris Home in COLBROKE ROW……………. WE SAID WE’D BE BACK!” Class War London opened up a water main outside gated estate agents Foxtons, which flooded dozens of expensive multi-million pound homes in a posh area. 100s of people had to be evacuated and the cost of […]

Translation note: This issue of “Tear down the Bastille, voices from inside the walls” was published in Greece in April 2016 and its theme was hunger strike as a means of struggle. Translated to English and Contributions by some anarchist comrades and Act for freedom now! via actforfree.

**UPDATE** via Kurdish Question People’s Protection Units (YPG) volunteers, American Michael Israel (27) from Colorado and German Anton Neshek (Zana Ciwan), were killed by Turkish warplanes on 29 November according to another international volunteer fighting alongside the pair against the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS/ISIL), north of Raqqa. [updated]. On his […]

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Dear all, In the end of November of 2016 we had the opportunity of recording a presentation in Berlin by the Anarchist Black Cross in Czech Republic on the topic of Operation Fenix. The talk comprised the following topics: a short review of what had happened, the use of the term „terrorism“, the topic of […]

Aachen: 1/12 update and announcement of date of the verdict Today, 1/12 was the final day of trial for the presentation of the evidence for or against the comrade from Amsterdam accused by the prosecution of Aachen of a bank robbery that took place in July 2013 in the same city. This means that on […]

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An update from the Anarchist Library: Fall 2015 Getting old? or just the weather... Languages: Social Media: Mirrors: How to help: The Libraries: October 4, 2014: a shiny new library April 2014 December 2013 update (2) The bright side The dark side December 2013 update October 6th, 2015 An u […]

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We’ve closed down the Jabber server and have moved back to Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The chat is now hosted on the servers run by Freenode. You can access it by using your preferred IRC client and pointing it to: server: chat.freenode.net channel: #anarchistlibrary Please see http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml for some helpful information about accessing […]

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Announcing the Anarchist Library in the Danish language! Det Anarkistiske Bibliotek You can still find all of the libraries on torrent here, along with the magnet link. The previous announcements are located over on the wiki.

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I'm sure some do, but I don't in principle. Like a lot of social relationships, the relationship between yourself and a therapist has to be evaluated on a case by case basis, and the only person who is responsible for that evaluation is the one on the receiving end - only you can tell whether your mental health carers are dominating you, and really […]

I once went to a bookfair with a workshop on anarchist films, but I didn't go to it cuz i can only tolerate a certain number of workshops. Of course, there are problems that anarchists would have with motion pictures (chiefly the technology involved and how easily they seem to manipulate people), but I'm curious about what they have done with film […]

In over ten years of my routinely asking people if they know the simple distinction between a democracy and a lynch mob nobody has answered correctly and over half have confided that they are suspicious of the dictionary and sometimes prefer to make up their own definitions despite almost every one of them being clueless that the common dictionary merely con […]

Whilst searching for a mathematical short-cut, the conservative German physicist Max Planck begged his colleges to please explain the joke complaining that a sense of humor was never amongst his list of job requirements. What he could not have known with any certainty, but must have suspected, was that this particular shortcut would haunt the modern sciences […]

I define racism as the belief that human worth is inheritable. There is a connection with anarchy, imo, that makes this question relevant to this forum and especially so right now given the racial tension underlying the US election. Here's how I break it down: the "-ism" kind of means we're dealing with a belief. "Race" is purel […]

First, it would depend on whether or not the loved one in question desires to be cured and whether or not they would accept that cure.Second, if they desired it, I'd probably use it without any justification at all. To whom and where ought I address my justification? That said, the world is already full of oft-used technologies begotten via nefarious me […]

safety is another one of those words. lots of baggage, not necessarily a lot of clarity.ultimately, we are all responsible for our own safety all the time. that can mean things like eating good food, having strong social ties, having a place to sleep, fighting against things that hurt us, understanding what we want from relationships and learning how to get […]

There are certainly overlaps between individualist anarchism and anti-civ, and there are also overlaps between what could broadly be called social anarchism and anti-civ anarchism. You are correct that these lines are not particularly easily defined, but I will see if I can try to suss out somethging more specific.Many current North American individualist an […]

Unpopular Opinion™: I like technology. I guess I'm just going to be posting an answer that is somewhat off-topic, but it annoys me on a personal level how taken for granted it is that anarchists dislike technology - even if there is a pretty large grain of truth to this, it doesn't hold in all cases. I don't really care for anarcho-transhumani […]

hi sourkraut, welcome to 101.who is "we" in your question? in an anarchist situation, the governmental (or corporate) bodies that accepted the deal (that includes the debt) would no longer exist.your question definitely points to one (of many) reasons why an anarchist society would have a hard time in this world--every institution that benefits fro […]

while ingrate's answer is very in line with most of the folks on this site, the question as it stands, "does organizing in any sense interest anarchists" has the obvious answer of yes for most anarchists. the vast majority of anarchists believe in encouraging people to act and think differently, and in particular ways. more of an answer would […]

It seems to me that identity is most often approached as something internal to, caused by, someone by proponents and critics of identity politics alike. To me identity is more an issue of context than anything particularly causal. First off, we currently speak languages concomitantly arising/evolving with habitats we call ‘mass-society’ wherein any degree of […]

From what I've read it sounds like they did not have a great deal, and what they did have came from friends/family. Certainly they never made much off their writing or films - I think it would be a mistake to think that they must be well off based on how they're dressed in photos. The current uniform for the young and underemployed did not exist ye […]

Ni Dieu Ni Maitre >>>>> religion(s) is commonly associated with a hierarchical belief ... a hierarchicial belief attended by complimentary ideas is at the core of all religion ... these beliefs and attendant ideas comprise a structure that one is extrinsically conditioned to spiritually accept ... these beliefs exist as a thesis ... uncritica […]

you are nowhere ... you are nowhere because you are trying to locate/create that idealistic somewhere that structured information prophecizes is attainable .. that prophecy is the structural lie that welds the masses with hope ... the hope that you (all) are placeable within the structure's system is no different than the hope that the structure gives […]

when money is a means and not an end to a philosophical position it serves a valid purpose ... $$$ used in anti capitalist anti statist ways should be the defining arbiter of any individual commitment to freedom ... freedom by nature does not entail security ($$$) ... the system must be manipulated before it can be weakened and dismantled ... the best mean […]